Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

Good Company
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021: Washington Post
The Nest
- 100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle Fiction and Poetry

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
Top 20 Films of 2014 In Review Online
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth

Trending Works

Quichotte Salman Rushdie
Teach Me A Lesson
Last Man on Earth
The Emily Dicknson Reader Paul Legault
Universal Language Matthew Rankin
Second Sunday
Caste Isabel Wilkerson
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Soul Full of Coal Dust Chris Hamby
Vital Pursuits Evan Glasson
Churchill and Orwell Thomas E. Ricks
Advice from the Lights Stephen Burt
Showing Up Kelly Reichardt
Off Off On This Is the Kit

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